The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 25, 1900, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1900. 6 i - Che ok Eall. | % .DECEMBER 25, 1900 | TUESDAY MANAGY PUBLICATION OF) Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS 17 to 221 Telephone Press 202. 15 Cents 5 Cent: Delivered by Carrier Single Copl Terms by Mail DAILY Ca el $6.00 3.00 150 e » 1.50 Y Ll, One ¥ X 1.00 All podtmasters are muthorized to recelve subscriptions. mple coptes forwarded when requested » becribe ring change of address should be AND ( e with OAKLAND OFFICE €. GEORGE KROGNESS. gn Advertising, Marager For e NEW YOI CARLTON. ... PONDENT C. € NEW ¥( STEPHEN B. SMITH. .. STANDS Great s Co. ) OFFY Address All Communicstions ta W, 8, LEAKE, Mamager. stage: D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Per Week. Marquette Building, Ohicage, ““Central 2619."") WASHINGT D. 1406 G MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—:2 ntgomery, corner of Clay. X AMUSEMENTS. ! er Minstr AUCTION SALES. Cco MPLIMENT [— 9:30 o'elock open until 1 Market F. | good conscience eschewed license. Northern Hotel Stevenson St. ADDRESS in order their request ++.1118 Broadway Herald Square t., N. W open 633 afternoon and Christian ssions of conversion grave do w men, with thei with e world a are so-called hea 1 stand f Christmas wi ges and eruptions yed there. spect f Antony. of the atrocity. - ambitions, the and e vigorous not the heart etter, and e fule o Made pable of producing millennial results. Faith hope and charity go hand ng the m fort man, not r own kin and each wit date farther b, conscience of conduct life is brighter and better worth living. Why can the p theological Christian n ach other with great armies would be as good as the people. s a—— A Boston paper apologizes for the fact that the peo- ple of that city take more interest in college football matches than in college debates by saying that as the student intellect is immature the debates are not up to the Boston level, while the football is. That may not be a very good excuse, but anything goes at this season. ts whether The central idea It to associate the th such an literature, and libraries the dispensaries of the through > is no evidence that' books and The heathen world k It was an accident that p the Alexandrian library when Caesar The torch was put to the of the conflagration spreading That great collection whs e Christian zeal of Theodosius. s act have been vrtpealed at Peking, the people t e zrmies and officers are respon- e their protest heard and their hand ng the meditations of the sea- rely to the Christian nations that i the Christian era dawns lurid no armies in the field thers nd good will toward men. ere is such a distance between the practice of the Christian na- at their Governments represent the dynamic the 1 systems of religion, morality and ethics, y stands supremely at the head. In its spirit, none is superior to it. personal and national life, it is ca- In human so- ¥ we see here and there its benign influence upon in hand niseries of the world to soothe and com- The lowly are uplifted, the distressed find com- fort, and wherever brotherhood is made the rule of t these principles be also impressed upon Governments, not as dogmas, not in a r sectarian sense, but in the spirit of doing right because it is right? If this were done the ions would be no longer open to They would no longer guard aguinst each They would no longer com- bine to offer to the wrong and weak terms too hard uity would be the rule, national and inter- s largely the rule of individual life, and the people would no longer be better and more Christian than their Governments, but Governments re- | THE POWER OF THE PRESS. NDER its existing management The Call has taken a very sober view of the responsibility of a newspaper. The great power of the press is its command’ oi | publicity, Against that the word of mouth is power- | less. If the press make licentious use of publicity it :can easily become a pest. Therefore The Call has in It has preferred to be tolerant of some wrongs rather than be the agent of greater wrongs. But there are some duties that no paper should avoid. It owes something to public morality and to a vestal condition of society, and in discharge of this obligation it must know no friend and no enemy. It must be void of any motive except the protection of the honor of the innocent, and that purity which is the happiness of the life that {is and of that hoped for. We have never believed society to be in danger from the transgressions of those whose station in life renders them defenseless when exposed. The law runs quickly to punishment of those whose responsi- | bility for social purity is limited by humble or crim- inal surroundings. The press requires no céurage to expose them. Steam beer immorality does far less harm, directly or by example, than the champagne in- decency which so often runs and riots, ruins and be- trays, unscorched by exposure. Profoundly impressed by a grave sense of duty, The | Call has twice risked greatly in the cause of morality by exposing those who had every facility for attack and defense. In each case there was no malice, no element of personal feeling, nor other sentimerit thar regret that duty to the community required the pur- suit of those whose station and opportunities in life should have lifted them above practices so vicious that their continuance meant the inoculation of so- ciety with a social leprosy, the most appalling that can defile the world. In this we did not, and do not, assume the function of a censor morum, nor seek to penetrate any proper privacy to drag its peccadilloes into the light of pub- | Ticity. We dealt solely with the offensive public and per- sistent flaunting of gross immorality, under circum- stances that would inflict ultimate harm of the most serious character. We expected to be misunderstood by some, and therefore criticized. We expected also to be under- stood by the class of men we desired to reform by exposure or to drive their practices into a less hurt- ful obscurity, and therefore to be abused. In neither case were we disappointed. But we have now the satisfaction of knowing that those who misunderstood us offer their compliments to swell the general as- cription of right motive.and good purpose which comes from all quarters. And we have also the satis- faction of knowing that those who understood and therefore defamed us have received a warning that they take to heart. The hideous vices that have offended by their gaudy public display, that have smitten innocence, | OPerations, for it means that the whole apparatus for | betrayed trust, broken vows, destroyed confidence and | the secret transmission of messages can be conveyed | undermined the most sacred and have breathed a fetid pestilence where they pranced and relations, practiced their arts, have been compelled to seek the*| the great ocean liners, except those that cross the At- dens of darkness, where they belong. The proper use { lantic will be able to communicate, at almost any of the power of publicity by the press has banished them Let it be understood that we profess no zeal to | | | | | which they are intended, and it appears a high de- | other. case reap the greatest advantage, If this country, Great Britgin and Germany, however, would stand to- gether, they being the greatest commercial natious, they could force that policy upon the others. WIRELESS WONDERS. WIFTLY through the closing days of the cen- S tury Signor Marconi is urging on the work of perfecting his system of wireless telegraphy. His experiments are being made at Poole Harbor, England, and are being closely watched and reported by the London Chronicle. As The Call has hereto- fore announced, his work at present is directed mainly to completing his method of sending messages which cannot be read by any receiver except that for gree of success has attended his efforts. In explanation of his system he is reported to have stated recently to a representative of the Chronicle: “Hitherto the ether waves used for wireless tele- graphic messages have been sent in a promiscuous fashion—that is to say, they could be detected by any suitable receiver placed anywhere within the radius of action of the transmitting station. - Moreover, if two stations in proximity happened to send off simul- taneous messages, the receiving station within their radius would receive both messages, but they would be jumbled together, and consequently would be un- intelligible. The receiving instruments in my new system will respond only to those ether waves to which they are ‘tuned” The p#ssible combinations of ‘tunes’ are infinite, and no two instruments, there- fore, can communicate with each other unless they have first been expressly arranged for such communi- cations. So perfect is the new system that two mes- sages sent off from different stations can be picked up by one wire, and that one wire, passing through two receiving instruments, gives to each its proper message, separate and distinct, and without taking the other message. In this way it will be possible for an admiral to communicate at will either with the whole of his fleet simultaneously or with any particu- lar vessel, and he can do this even if his own fleet | should be split into two squadrons, with a hostile fleet intervening, and without his signals being under- stood by the enemy.” These latest reports from Marconi himself also an- nounce that the longest distance over which he has yet succeeded in transmitting messages across water * THE LORD LOVETH | ‘A CHEERFUL GIVER “THERE'S A BEGGAR AT THE DOOR; THING?” “GIVE HIM OUR BATH TICKETS THAT ARE LEFT OVER; COLD NOW, ANYWA SHALL I GIVE HIM ANY- a2 S SPS 1™s TOO | Y."—FLIEGENDE BLATTER. ! is 100 miles. That is sufficient to prove beyond all controversy that the curvature of the earth opposes absolutely no obstacle to the energy. Of wireless [ telegraphy across the Atlantic he is quoted as saying: | “It is merely a possibility of the future. I am not in | the least concerned with that particular problem at present.” | The report goes on to say: ‘“Another important : development of the system is the ability to communi- cate over a distance of more than thirty miles by ‘ means of a metal cylinder placed upon an ordinary | chair. This will be of immense advantage in military | upon a cart from one point of the field of war to an- One great commercial advantage will be that | S0 e e e e NEW PLAN TO MAKE HOME HAPPY. A dispatch printed In the Balitmore Sun gives the detalls of the organiza- tion of an interesting secret society at Monongah, W. Homemakers. is the old Spanish preverb: A woman, a spaniel, and a walnut tree; The more you thrash them the better they be. WEich indirectly explains the method cf the society in making homes happy. From the circumstances leading up to the organization of this society of frcemen it would appear that the women of Monongah are a brawling, con- tentlous Ict, who, not satisfied with quarreling with cack other and keeping the whole town In a turmoil, have lately developed a spirit of mutiny at heme, m the peace of the household in many instances. The men of Monongah have borne this conditlon of thirgs with exemplary patience, and when they were smitten cn one cheek have turned the other in vain expeetation of pacifying their spouses. have defied their husbands and birok: to do some of the smiting themsslves. The object of the soclety Is to make home happy. Va., known as the Its motto Now they propose i | it is to be noped that befc | | to maintain its se point of their voyage, with every part of the world. Such are the latest authentic reports from the scene where wireless telegraphy is rapidly being perfected seek out, detect and expose transgressions in the fu- 1f0r human use. It is too late now for the nineteenth ture. But when the transgressor exposes himself [ CeNtury to have the distinction of making extensive by offenses against public decency, he may know | use of the wonderful means of communication, but it what will happen to him by reading the history of what has happened. | f There is no further immunity here for the high- | € the centuries that are to come. placed and powerful transgressor, who by reason of bis station is more harmful than a thousand humbler men who, led by his example, may follow it into trouble and punishment, while he goes free. We believe sincerely that crime and immorality among the lowly and weak of will have their origin to a great extent in the unpunished offenses of another ss who owe to the world a good example, but give a bad example instead. There is no use for the so- cial missionary to go among the ignoble to restrain and admonish them when they know that the sphere whence the mission issues is defiled by the practices which in them are rebuked. The Call expects that hereafter its purpose will be understood, and therefore hopes that it will have less occasion to make others feel the high estimate which it puts upon duty. CHINA’S BURDEN. . HE disposition to put upon China a burden she cannot bear has reappeared among the Minis- | ters representing the allies. American con- | science and pride are satisfied by the moderate views of our Government. President McKinley takes the highly just view that indemnity shall not overreach China’s power to respond. He has also given vitality to the Peace Congress of The Hague by proposing that the question of indemnity be submitted to the | court of arbitration provided by that body. This would be productive of much good, for the world and for China itself.+ It would be, in a high sense, her ad- | niission to the council of nations in a tribunal where her equities will receive judicial attention, and it would also save the self-respect of the people of the Western powers, who fail to impress their individual Governments with their own sense of justice. We | hope that some voice that expresses the world’s con- | scierice will be lifted 1n Europe in support of the po- sition of the President of this republic. In discussing the amount of indemnity the news dispatches get taels and dollars mixed in a confus- | ing way. The tael is a Chinese weight. Its equiva- | lent in avoirdupois of 1.333 ounces. Its transfer from | an expression of weight to be the name of a money | measure is just the same as the use of the pound 1 English money, the livre in French, and similar deri- | vations of the name of money units in other nations. But China has no fixed money unit, and the value | of the tael differs in different parts of the empire. | Thus we have the tacl of Amoy, Canton, Chefoo, Chinkiang, Fuchau, Haikwan, Hankow, Hongkong, | Niuchwang, Ningpo, - Shanghai, Swatow and Tientsin, differing slightly in value. This difference runs from a value per tael of .666 Shanghai, the low- est, to .742 Haikwan, measured in American. gold. China being a silver country, the value of her taels varies with the fluctuations in silver, when expressed n our coin and standard. As the customs tael is tha: of Haikwan, it is probable that in all Government | matters that will be used, so that when the indemnity demanded is expressed in taels it will be the one that | is valued at seventy-iour cents and two mills in our | money. 2 If the allies could agree among themselves to open more doors to commerce in China and take trade ad- vantages as a great part of the indemnity, the way toa scttlement would be easy. But it is probable that they cl | | | of all the people of the world. will nevertheless have the right to claim it among the many marvels of science and mechanism it transmits A BIG PROGRAMME, IROM Washington dispatches we learn that a F‘anain man described as a crank has been trying to find a Congressman to introduce into the House a bill providing first that the name of the re- | public shall be changed from the United States of America to the United States of the Earth, and, sec- ond, that the Government shall at once proceed to is- sue an amount of money sufficient to meet the needs The name of this so-called crank is not given. That fact, while it may be an injustice to the individual, is not to be regretted, since it leaves the country free to consider his scheme on its merits. It would be a public injury to have this far-reaching programme mixed up with any personality, whether great or petty. It is big enough to stand alone if it can be made to stand at all, and when its lofty height is up- lifted any individual perched upon its summit would be invisible, or, if seen at all, would appear but as a speck marring the splendor of its crest. It is a twentieth century programme in the fulles: sense of the word. It would take the whole century to establish it and get it in working order. The is- sue of the money alone would require time and pa- tience, for it appears from reports that come to us that the proponent of the plan suggests two kinds of money. He says: ‘‘Receivable currency is a white race idea, while redeemable currency is a black race idea” Consequently we must have those two kinds ‘provided for, and upon deep reflection it will be seen the task of supplying them will be a difficult one. In the first place, at what shade of color are we to draw the line between the white and the black races? Is the mulatto, for example, to be supplied with the receivable or the redecmable money? In the second place, how are we to distinguish between what money is receivable and what is redeemable? If the redeem- able money is not to be received or the receivable money not to be redeemed, how are we to maintain a parity between the finances of the races in the United States of the Earth? i It is to be regretted that the present session of Con- gress is too short to take up this subject and discuss it in all its amplitude. As it is the bill will in all probability never be so much as introduced and re- ferred to a committee, Even as it is, however, the originator of the plan will not have his labor in vain. He has at least obtained a hearing from the press, and the country has obtained information of his scheme. It can hardly be deemed an issue of practical politics, ‘but as a forerunner of a Populist programme for the coming century it is worth noting with some interest. e — From the number of amendments that have been proposed to the constitution it would seem we have a considerable number of statesmen who would will- irgly support a call for a constitutional convention to revise the whole thing and bring it up to date. PR Sy Richard Le Gallienne is said to have recently regis- tered himself at a Chicago hotel as of “London and Minneapolis,” and ever since the Chicago people have been wondering whether the thing was intended as a cryptogram or a fool freak. ” 1 Bryan is going to start a weekly paper. and it is now distrust each other and fear that one or two, like | reported that Pettigrew will establish another, so the Great Britain and the United States, would in that | new century will have troubles of its own. force to secure it. as the men to make home happy. | | conclusions with their wives. 2 PERSONAL MENTION. Willlam W. Virtue of Sydney is at the Palace. David Reld of London is registered at the Palace. A. G. Vercoe, a Fresno mining man, is at the Palace. Dr. J. W. Bell and wife of Minneapolls are at the Occldental. A. C. Kamp, a London newspaper man, it at the Palace with kis wife. Eugene Cowles, the actor, accompanied by his wife, is at the Palace. Dantel Murphy, 2 capitalist of Los An- geles, is at the Palace with his wife. A. P. Dryden, mail agent of New Zea- land, is registered at the California. J. C. Sims of Santa Rosa, chairman of the State Central Committee, is at the Lick, James R. Dunn, Chief Bureau, returned from Washington yes- terday evening. G. Pacheco of Ignaclo, with his wife, has taken apartments at the Grand for the Christmas holidays Dr. B. F. Sandow of the island of Kauai is on a pleasure tour of the United States and Is stopping at the Occidental. E. O. McCormick, passenger traffic man- ager of the Southern Pacific, went to San- ta Ysabel yesterday with his family and they will spend Christmas there. Ngo Boon Sfew, a prominent Formosan and delegate at large from that country to the Paris Exposition, is at the Occi- dental. He salls for home Saturday. Vice President J. C. Stubbs of the Southern Pacific leaves to-day for New Orleans, where he will meet President Charles M. Hays and with Julius Krutt- schnitt will accompany Mr. Hays to this city. They are expected to arrive here the first of next month. —_———————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. M'KINLEY'S PLURALITY-S.,, Al meda, Cal. McKinley's plurality at the last held election was 813,725, v BACK DATES-J. Bn‘ uoulud,,“‘c.u e N iy . o sy NEW YEAR CARD-F. M, City. If a entleman cannot call on a lady to wish happy New Year, it I:;d.hh e.l?d with best wis BRITISH SUCCESSION-X. Y. Z, The one who will succeed Queen Victoria on tish throne is her eldest son, g’?nc‘oflAl\nn Ed , Prince of Wale: born in 1841 TWBENTY-CENT PIECES-J. Mo, City. The twenty-cent Dlu:;:h for which dealers offer a are those issued hf 1877 n#:in advance oi‘-m over face value is from 80 cents to $1 30. GOODS NOT ORDERED—E. 8., Olinda, Cal. This department is not aware of the existence of law that will compel a person to pay for any goods sent to him through the mfl which he did not order, directly or indirectly. ABOUT MEXICO—J. M. R., Keno, Or. To obtain information to what part of Mexico is best in which to raise sheep write to Andrew D. Barlow, Consul General, f City of Mexico, THE HAY-PAl;i EFOTE TREATY— G. A. B, City. The two main points of the Hay-Pauncefole treaty are (1) the abrogation of those parts of the Clayte Bulwer treaty which prevent free A:z:l.'t of the Chinese | The Scelety of Homemakers has employed zn attorney to advise the mem- bers how far they can go in making home stone, and finds that under the anelent common law of England a man may beat his wife, but must use a stick,no bigger than his thumb. Acting upon his report, the husbands have provided themselves with sticks of the regu- latipn size, and now propose to have peace even if they have to resort to No news has yet come from Monongah of an outbreak on the part'of the women, but the calm that prevalls is suspicious. genizing an associaticn to make home happy. mon law that limits a wife to a stick not bigger than her thumb when she corrects Ler husband. Therefore, when the men of Monongah actually begin operations it is not unlikely they may find themselves confronted by deter- mined women armed with pokers, broomsaicks or shovels, equally as resolute The chances are that the masculine home- makers will be routed at the first onslaught and that they will be contented with the old style of happiness at home and have no further desire to try United States | lex. appy. He has consulted Black- | | | | f Perhaps they, too, are or- There is nothing in the com- F -4 - - -l.'_ + | | L o B e n e e Y can ownership and control of the proposed | Nicaragua canal, and (2) the agreement | to maintain the neutrality of the canal in | peace and war equally among all nations. NOT PREMIUM COINS—H. L. L., City. Dimes of 1845 and of 1873 are coins for which dealers do not offer premium. | ' BARRY AND LEON-D. B., City. The | published record of Jimmy Barry does not | show that he fought Casper Leon in San | Francisco. A NOTE—O. 8., City. In the State of | California a promissory mnote runs four years after maturity if executed within the State; two years if executed outside of the State. | WHEN IT OUTLAWED-J. K., Probe- ta, Cal. If a note was given June 8, 189, ayable one day atter date, it outlawed n four vears if it was executed in the State; in two years if executed outside of the State. SOLDIERS' LAND CLAIMS—F. W. T, | City. For information relative to soldier's | land clalm of long ago communicate with the Commissioner of the General Land Office, Interior Department building, ‘Washington, D. C. PEDRO—W. C. H., Fresno, Cal. In the game of draw' pedro the count is high, low, jack, pedro, and if on the last deal each player made the requisite number of | Fclnts to go out and one held high and ow, he would count out. COPYRIGHT—B. T. L., San Jose, Cal. | If you will write to the dbnrlan of Con- | gress at Washington, D. C., he will mail you a circular of information relative to cogyrlgm that will answer every question | asked in your letter of inquiry. HOME RULE BILL—H. M., City. The | Irish home rule bill, known as the Glad- | stone bill, was defeated in the House of Lords September 9, 1893. Willlam E. Glad- stone was in the office of Prime Minister from August 18, 1892, to March 3, 1894, STARS ON THE FLAG—J. B. Oakland, Cal. that the number of stripes on the U States flag was limited to thneek.m t.'f\: number of stars increasing with the num- Ber ‘of States, which now number forty- PERCENTAGE-T. J. T, City. The question asked is one of simple arithmetic, not of general interest and one of the class that this department does not an- ?:::torgrn problmmemn:to“ o tions in arithme g A DIME—Subscriber, Edeavale, Cal. It the dlme you have was coined in 1884 in any of the mints outside of the San Fran- cisco Branch Mint it cents; If coined In the Baw mryeractly ten it commands a premium. e ”op‘r'::. clsco dimes have the letter S under the ‘wreath on the reverse side. BULWER-CLAYTON TREATY_G. B, City. The Clayion-Bulwer treaty ':; a treaty concluded between Great Britain and the United States in 1850, The n¢ tiators were Secretary of State John Clayton and Sir Henry Bulwer. It related to the establishment of communication between the Atlantic and the Pacife oceans by means of a ship canal across the isthmus of Nicaragua. It forbade the exclusive control o be ol { communication by CONTORTIONIST—E. W, M., City. 1¢ you are ambitious to become a contortion- ist yo;x ::ould apply to the instructor of one of e Ivate gymi hers who have schools whete girls are tausn; that is, provided you are not too far nd- vanced If vears. To become a contortion- Ist a child should commence a1t the age of 7 ana continue In practice uarl deain or QingOeied with the flisiness. On> who has attaine e age of or 16 is eLuugh to start in to learn. i | Th It was by the act of April 4, 1318, | EDITORIAL UTTERANCE IN VARIETY Fix It for Good. Let the gold standard law be mads what it was intended to be—a statuts placing the standard upon such firm foun- dations that it cannot be shaken by po- | litical revolution or business depression | and making the policy of United States so clear that New York may be- come the clearing house of the world in the expansion of our international trade Why should we be content with anything And what good n is there for ting?—HARTFORD COURANT. The Mississippi Plan. Tennessee needs a new | have lengthened into vears it | it. In that constitution t a provision modeled af | provision, which has bee highest tribunal in the |z | sound_. that the ignorant s cise the right of suffra is one every Southern State s face to the rising take.—NASHVILL Commerce and Transportation. The extension of commerce made by the improvement of th transportation. The ship has igcreased fifteen fold ning ‘of the cent a hundred years ago, now ¢ miles; telegraphs, another mod: tion, embrace 933,000 miles, and cables 168,000 miles. Upon thi commercial basis the world begin a mew century. It is no surp find the American people earnest ested in ship canals and the d | the Mississippi, the great in e cf North America. Commerce has been laced where it is by the greatly bettered acilities for intercommunication. —ST LOUIS GLOBE-DEMOCRAT. | The Golden Era. | We have no doubt whatever about t President Mc Klnli‘{' will le: ut it | real facts. | the party to a “golden er: | be one in which the profit sh: an amplification of existing pr 4 | Further victories in the contests for t | world’s markets, more industries in or: to supply the demand, additional re- { Sources and opportunities consequent upc the development of our insular posses- | sions—these are the things that will con | tribute -toward the realization of “the golden era.” And who shall say not legitimate and within the pro the party to give to the country? The Re- | publican party has no reputation for lax- ity, inefficlency and dishonesty in the handling of the nation’s filnances.—BAL | TIMORE AMERICAN. | Science in Meteorology. There will go on eing warm winters North and cold winters South, but at the end of a series of years the average will | remain about what it was in early days. | The science of meteorology does not con cern itself much about this. Its aims | more practical, and its collection of data for induction is for use in daily forecast- | ing. ays are not so constant as and years are not so constant as cycles, | and the percentage of correct prediction by “Old Prob.” is not yet what {t may | be. Cloud-study and the investigation of | the upper air by kites and balloons pro- vide the most hope for future success: but meanwhile, whatever the weather for the day or month, we may rest assured that its preponderance one way or another will | surely be made up.—DALLAS NEWS, Political vs. Private Control. | While eorporate control is far from ideal and requires radical reformation it is | guided by the knowledge that if it dees not keep up with the times it will register {a dismal failure. That is why the canals of this country have stood still or fallen | into_decay for fifty years, while the rail- roads have develoged many times their | original capacity ahd effectiveness. 1t | there had been half the effort to improve | the original canals in size and adaptation to the growing needs of that there has heen in th rallroads the waterways o would be as they are in Fra the chief factors of heavy tran ere has been no such effort because canals were under political control and the railroads under private control.— PITTSBURG DISPATCH. A CHANCE TO SMILE Mr. Hubb—Nonsense! I do not see why 1 sbeuld take any notice of the epithet he pplied to me. It meant nothing. Mr. Penn—What! Why, the man called { you a blithering idiot. Mr. Hubb—Exactly; and thers is no such word in the English’'language as blither- ing.—Philadeiphia Press. Sportsman (to Smith, who hasa't brought down a_single bird all day)—Do you know Lord Peckham? Smith—Oh, dear, yes; I've often shot at his house. 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